Events
Behind The Scenes
A fun, informal event highlighting the inner workings and experiences within the club. Members shared stories, ideas, and strengthened their sense of community.
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Singularity Elections 2025
The club conducted elections to select new leadership through a fair and transparent process. The event marked a transition with fresh ideas for future activities.
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Astrophoto Image Processing Workshop
A hands-on workshop focusing on astrophotography image processing techniques. Participants learned skills like stacking, calibration, and color balancing.
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Detecting Dark Matter Workshop
A coding-focused workshop that explored computational approaches to dark matter detection. Participants gained practical experience in data analysis and simulations used in astrophysics research.
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Singularity Freshers Orientation
The Singularity Orientation for the incoming 25MS batch introduced freshers to the astronomy club of IISER Kolkata, its history, activities and ongoing initiatives. The session highlighted workshops, star-gazing sessions, astrophotography, radio astronomy projects and volunteer opportunities, concluding with an interactive Q&A and group photo session.
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Stellar Pathways: Career Opportunities in Astronomy and Astrophysics
We hosted a career guidance session on astronomy and astrophysics, covering internships, higher studies and career opportunities in the field. The session provided practical insights into applications, research pathways and skill development for aspiring astrophysicists.
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Star-Planet Interactions: From Parker Winds to Alfvén Wings
We hosted a student talk on Star–Planet Interactions, exploring the stellar winds, magnetic interactions and their significance in exoplanetary systems through engaging explanations and discussions.
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Parallelization with MPI Workshop
A 2-Day Intensive Workshop on Parallelization with MPI, by Prof. Sudip Garain. This workshop introduced participants to parallel computing and high-performance programming. The workshop combined theoretical concepts with hands-on MPI exercises, covering communication protocols, scalability and scientific computing applications.
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Singularity Elections
Singularity conducted its 2026–27 OB elections, where the outgoing OBs also reflected on their journey with the club. Following manifesto presentations, discussions and voting, the new Office Bearers were elected.
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Precessing Binary Black Holes
We hosted a talk on the topic, exploring how various methods differ from standard aligned-spin searches. The session discussed the impact of detector glitches on search sensitivity and ongoing efforts to better distinguish real signals from instrumental noise.
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Evolution and Multi-wavelength Analysis of Active Galactic Nuclei in the DESI survey
The speaker discussed the machine learning approaches to identifying Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in DESI survey galaxies using multi-wavelength data. The session explored how autoencoders and spectral reconstruction techniques can improve AGN detection and support future astrophysical and cosmological studies.
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Dark Matter Capture in Neutron Stars and its Significance
In this Student Talk the speaker presented his research on the topic using a two-fluid TOV framework. The talk explored dark matter candidates, neutron star structure and the role of gravitational waves and tidal deformability in probing dark matter physics.
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